Linguistics and Philosophy - Ph.D. / Sc.D.

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Abstract In this dissertation, we develop and defend a universal theory of concord (i.e. feature sharing between a head noun and the modifying adjectives). When adjectives in a language show concord with the noun they ...

Joint practical deliberation is the activity of deciding together what to do. In this dissertation, I argue that several speech acts that we can use to alter our moral obligations - promises, offers, requests, demands, ...

This thesis studies operators such as and and only, which occur in a broad range of environments. And, for instance, appears between sentences, intransitive verbs, quantifiers, and so forth. One line of analysis assigns ...

Loan gemination is a cross-linguistically widespread phenomenon: short consonants preceded by short stressed vowels in the source language are borrowed as long in loanwords. It is generally considered to be an 'unnecessary' ...